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Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson.
Van Pelt Library HV9475.T4 P47 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perkinson, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--Texas--History.
- Prisons.
- Prison administration--Texas--History.
- Prison administration.
- Prisoners--Texas--History.
- Prisoners.
- History.
- Texas.
- Physical Description:
- 484 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
- Summary:
- In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. This sweeping history of American imprisonment shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric becomes the national template--and how that injustice can change.
- Contents:
- Prison heartland
- Plantation and penitentiary
- "Worse than slavery"
- The agonies of reform
- The penal colony that wasn't
- "Best in the nation"
- Appeal to justice
- Retributive revolution
- The triumph of Texas tough.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-466) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780805080698
- 0805080694
- OCLC:
- 317928797
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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